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Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Coffinfish - I Am Providence (Album Review)

Album
Type:
Full-Length

Date
Released:
May 21st 2015

Label:
Unquiet
Records

I
Am Providence - Track Listing:

1.Zadok Allen 04:31

2.The Expedition
08:44

3.Watchers 12:10

4.Against Life 09:25

5.Staring at the
Abyss 12:06

Band
Members

czapla - guitar

jasiek - keyboards

kołek - drums

lobo - vocals

michał - bass

prymas - guitar

Bio:

Founded in 2011,
Coffinfish is still evolving, growing, and widening the scope of
musical inspirations. Although staying within the scope of “weird
fiction”, they’re not limited to one particular theme. Onirism,
human mind, oceans, and mountains. I Am Providence is a follow‐up
to the 2013 EP called Staring at the Abyss and is a huge step forward
both musically and lyrically.

Review:

Coffinfish
is an Experimental Sludge/Post-Metal band that takes influence from
ISIS, Neurosis and Cult Of Luna. Their debut album – I Am
Providence – more than establish Coffinfish to give a damn about in
the Sludge/Post-Metal world as their take on Sludge/Post-Metal has
intelligence and brawn to match. Shades of Post-Rock are used
throughout the album with the heavier Sludge/Post-Metal brutality
holding the destructive mood altogether.

Opening
track – Zadok Allan – has a slight Pelican influence but
Coffinfish offer a more brooding and darker style that Pelican
haven't been able to match for their last few releases. Coffinfish
aren't an instrumental post-metal band but they prove they can offer
a different take on instrumental post-metal if they ever decide to go
down that route in the future. A great track to open the album with.

Second
track – The Expedition – sees the real Coffinfish arrive with
slabs of heavy pounding sludge metal riffs and shattering vocals to
match. The band offer a bleak insight to the realm of Atmospheric
Sludge. It's good to see a band play to their influences but still
showing the world they break through on their own terms and vision.
And that's what Coffinfish have achieved here. A stunning bleak
vision against a pissed-off hardcore/sludge backdrop that only adds
to the angry and volatile atmosphere that the band have created.
Coffinfish add subtle hints of ambient post-rock to soothe your
senses but this is a false sense of security as the band unleash
their true identity and musical vision for everyone to witness.

Coffinfish
create epic volatile moods of nature than songs as each song feels
like the whole world is coming to an end and there is nothing that we
can do about but just watch the end of the world. With scientists
having just announced that the world is in the midst of a Sixth Mass
Extinction then Coffinfish have created the perfect album to play out
as the soundtrack to the end of the world. It's a bleak and
unflinching vision that you can't help but witness.

Third
track Watchers opens up with a lengthy post-rock/post-metal
instrumental riff that lasts for days before shades of Ambient Noises
and sounds pile on the misery until Lobo's vocals kick in and pile on
the misery. It's possibly the darkest track on the album and one that
will leave you feeling slightly depressed by it all. This is one of
the most gruelling and punishing songs I've listened to this year but
it's still a powerful ride I can't recommend highly enough.

The
remaining two tracks on the album – Against Life and Staring At The
Abyss – carries on the gruelling Sludge/Post-Metal riffage as
Coffinfish leave no stone unturned leaving your life slightly more
depressing but it's one dark and unforgettable ride that will appeal
to long-time fans of ISIS and Neurosis. The instrumental work is
stunning throughout the album. Coffinfish definitely earn their
rising reputation within the Sludge/Post-metal scene.

Do
yourself a favour and hunt this album down as it's a superb debut
album. Coffinfish deserve your attention and more. This album is a
powerful ride into the unknown. Lets see what future twisted works of
art that Coffinfish will come up for us in the future. Spellbinding
and brilliant. End Of.

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